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Den 7 mars börjar Lina Wedin som kanslichef på Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten. Under mars månad kommer hon successivt att ersätta Malou Engberg de Carvalho som går i pension i slutet av månaden. Varmt välkommen till Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten! Hur känns det att snart börja som kanslichef?Det känns spännande att få ansvar för en så viktig verksamhet. Eftersom jag tycker om att träffa nya mä
https://www.sam.lu.se/internt/artikel/ny-kanslichef-pa-ingang - 2026-08-25
I år utlyser fakulteten återigen medel för utbildningsrelaterade aktiviteter och för utveckling av forskningssamverkan. Hur går det egentligen till att söka? Och vilken sorts aktiviteter kan det vara? Läs om två exempel här! Tove Lundbergs och Simon Granérs projekt ”Livslångt lärande tillsammans” Ni beviljades medel för utbildningsrelaterade aktiviteter 2022-2023. Vilken aktivitet sökte ni medel f
https://www.sam.lu.se/internt/artikel/inspireras-att-soka-medel-forskningssamverkan-eller-pedagogisk-utveckling - 2026-08-25
Fakultetens val till universitetskollegiet är nu avslutat och en offentlig sammanräkning av röster har genomförts på fakultetskansliet. Följande personer har valts som Samhällsvetenskapliga fakultetens ledarmöter i uniersitetskollegiet:Företrädare för vetenskapligt kompetenta lärare: Elia Psouni, universitetslektor, Institutionen för psykologi Björn Johnson, professor, Socialhögskolan Hen
https://www.sam.lu.se/internt/artikel/valresultat-ledamoter-till-universitetskollegiet - 2026-08-25
Nu är det dags att se över din information i LUCRIS. Uppdatera din profil, se över dina projekt och registrera dina publikationer från 2025. Passa också gärna på att synliggöra ditt ORCID i LUCRIS (via LUCAT) om du inte redan har gjort det! Synliggör din forskningAtt ha uppdaterad information i LUCRIS är viktigt för att:Datan från LUCRIS kan återanvändas, exempelvis på Samhällsvetenskapliga fakult
https://www.sam.lu.se/internt/artikel/glom-inte-att-uppdatera-lucris - 2026-08-25
Ungefär ett år har gått sedan fakultetsstyrelsen fattade ett inriktningsbeslut om att fakulteten ska gå mot färre och större enheter under de kommande sex åren. Hösten ägnades åt förankring och kunskapsinhämtning, och nu planeras för ett första samgående. Sedan projektplanen klubbades i höstas har projektgruppen träffat samtliga institutionsledningar och deltagit på många personal- och styrelsemöt
https://www.sam.lu.se/internt/artikel/organisationsprojektet-gar-i-en-ny-fas - 2026-08-25
Valet pågår 6-20 mars. En kallelse till val har gått ut med e-post. Alla röstberättigade vid fakulteten kan rösta via Easyvote under perioden 6-20 mars.Valet avser 5 ordinarie vetenskapligt kompetenta lärare, 1 suppleant för vetenskapligt kompetenta lärare, och 2 representanter för övriga anställda. I samtliga val har du möjlighet att rösta på ett alternativt förslag istället för de av kanslichefe
https://www.sam.lu.se/internt/artikel/dags-att-valja-valberedning - 2026-08-25
Hållbarhetsveckan är ett årligt event där Lunds universitet och Lunds kommun bjuder in till en vecka med aktiviteter kring hållbarhet. Som vanligt deltar Samhällsvetenskapliga fakultetens forskare i flertalet intressanta programpunkter. Kom och lyssna på dina kollegor! Måndag 8 aprilHur kan DU påverka lokalt och inom EU? - Om klimatfrågan inför EU-valet | Hållbarhetsforum (lu.se)Håkan Johansson, S
https://www.sam.lu.se/internt/artikel/samhallsvetare-pa-hallbarhetsveckan-8-13-april - 2026-08-25
On 5 May 2025, a mock trial was held at the Faculty of Law in Lund, in a hypothetical prosecution of Stig Engström for the murder of Olof Palme. On the evening of 28 February 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot dead in central Stockholm as he was returning home from the cinema with his wife Lisbeth Palme. The killer ran into a dark alley and vanished.Thirty-four years later, in June 2
https://www.law.lu.se/article/mock-trial-against-stig-engstrom-murder-olof-palme - 2026-08-25
The board of the Einar Hansen Research Foundation has decided to appoint Professor Martin Sunnqvist as the recipient of the Einar Hansen Research Prize 2025. The board's motivation for the recipient of the Einar Hansen Research Prize 2025: "Sunnqvist is professor of legal history at the Faculty of Law at Lund University. He defended his thesis in 2014 on Constitutional Critical Judging. The Change
https://www.law.lu.se/article/recipient-einar-hansen-research-prize-2025 - 2026-08-25
The Judges Proposals Board has appointed Torvald Larsson, LL.D. and senior lecturer in public law, as a special member in cases concerning legality review at the Administrative Court in Malmö. The appointment is for the period from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2028. Legality review is a form of appeal against municipal decisions regulated in Chapter 13 of the Local Government Act (2017:725). In a
https://www.law.lu.se/article/torvald-larsson-appointed-special-member-administrative-court-malmo - 2026-08-25
Petra Holmberg, postdoc in medical law at the Faculty of Law, won the Research Grand Prix competition in Helsingborg on 7 October. In front of an audience of over 500 secondary school students, she presented her research on the risks of 80 per cent of Gen Z using chatbots to manage stress or anxiety. “It’s not surprising, AI feels simple and safe. But my research shows that it can be downright dan
https://www.law.lu.se/article/petra-holmberg-wins-forskar-grand-prix-competition - 2026-08-25
Professor Marko Milanovic is appointed as Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from September 2025. The Faculty of Law is honoured and pleased to announce that Professor Mark Milanovic, University of Reading, has been appointed as Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from September 2025 until August 2027, and affiliated to the Faculty
https://www.law.lu.se/article/professor-marko-milanovic-appointed-raoul-wallenberg-visiting-chair - 2026-08-25
Julia Björverud is one of this year's seven recipients of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' 2025 Dissertation Prize for outstanding dissertations. In its justification for the nomination, the Faculty of Law stated, among other things: "In her thesis, Julia Björverud examined how the Swedish principle of public access to official records has been handled by legislators during the period 1809–1
https://www.law.lu.se/article/julia-bjorverud-awarded-royal-swedish-academy-sciences-dissertation-prize - 2026-08-25
The Swedish government has appointed Vilhelm Persson, professor of public law at the faculty, as a member of the board of the Swedish Institute for Human Rights. He succeeds another of the faculty's professors, Titti Mattsson, whose term as a board member expires at the end of the year. The Swedish Institute for Human Rights is an independent government agency tasked with protecting and promoting
https://www.law.lu.se/article/vilhelm-persson-appointed-new-board-member-swedish-institute-human-rights - 2026-08-25
Marie Jacobsson, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law in Lund, has been awarded a Doctor of Science in Maritime Affairs honoris causa in recognition of outstanding services to the international maritime community at the World Maritime University (WMU) in Malmö. Until her retirement in 2023, Marie Jacobsson was an ambassador and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs' Legal Adviser on International
https://www.law.lu.se/article/honorary-doctorate-world-maritime-university - 2026-08-25
LL.M. Max Bodin, who graduated from the law program at Lund University in the spring term of 2025, has been awarded the YAS (Young Arbitrators Sweden) prize for the best thesis in arbitration law in Sweden. The title of the thesis is: The Jurisdiction of Arbitral Tribunals to Examine Set-Off Claims in International Arbitration. The prize amount is SEK 15,000 and was presented during a ceremony in
https://www.law.lu.se/article/lund-university-student-max-bodin-receives-award-his-thesis-arbitration-law - 2026-08-25
Mariya Senyk has been awarded funding for the project “From the Court of Justice to the General Court: Can legitimacy be preserved?”. The project aims to analyse the General Court’s judgments during the first four years after part of the responsibility for preliminary rulings was transferred from the Court of Justice to the General Court. The focus is on cases concerning value-added tax and excise
https://www.law.lu.se/article/torsten-soderberg-foundation-awards-grant-eu-law-project - 2026-08-25
Positive news that the Rune and Lena Lavin Foundation for Legal Research at the Faculty of Law in Lund, at its autumn meeting, has decided to award SEK 176,500 to a total of seven applicants. Information about the spring 2026 call for applications will be published in March 2026.For the mandate period 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2028, the board consists of the following members:Associate Senior
https://www.law.lu.se/article/award-rune-and-lena-lavin-foundation-legal-research-0 - 2026-08-25
The fundraising campaign for establishing the world’s first Museum of International Law at the Faculty of Law has reached a major milestone. Thanks to a significant donation of SEK 143,000 from Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet i Lund (the Royal Society of the Humanities in Lund), as well as generous contributions from Mannheimer Swartling, Engström & Co., and the Human Rights Profile Area
https://www.law.lu.se/article/fundraising-milestone-reached-worlds-first-museum-international-law - 2026-08-25
The European Commission has, thankfully, approved funding of approximately 10 million SEK (892,000 EUR) for the research project FAMIMOVE (3.0). The project builds on the experiences of previous initiatives and focuses on examining the international family law regulations that become relevant when families move within the EU or to the EU from other countries, with a particular emphasis on the vuln
https://www.law.lu.se/article/research-grant-eu-project-famimove-30 - 2026-08-25
